some loose ends

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Jun 18 11:43:21 CDT 2001



Terrance wrote:
> 
> 
>  " no religion without binaries, sinners and saints, above
> and below."
> 
> And this is a problem? Because?
> 
> Is there a binary in V's relationship with her girl here in
> "V in love"?
> No S&M right?

And yet one solution to a most ancient paradox of love:
simultaneous sovereignty yet a fusing-together. Dominance
and submissiveness didn't apply; the pattern of three was
symbiotic and mutual. V. needed her fetish, Melaine a
mirror, temporary peace, another to watch her have pleasure.
For such is the self-love of the young that a social aspect
enters in: an adolescent girl whose existence is so visual
observes in a mirror her double; the double becomes a
voyeur. Frustration at not being able to fragment herself
into an audience of enough only adds to her sexual
excitement. She needs, it seems, a real voyeur to complete
the illusion that her reflections are, in fact, the
audience...comes consummation...They are she.



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